Je suis Charlie
The students at Batley Grammar have better sense than the adults outside the gates.
Students at #BatleyGrammar have started a petition to support their teacher. #BatleySchool pupils want their teacher reinstated. #Batley #JeSuisCharliehttps://t.co/LluiXTVQ1X
— Ex-Muslims of North America (@ExmuslimsOrg) March 26, 2021
Teacher facing death threats for 'showing Prophet Mohammed cartoons to students' was whisked away from home https://t.co/kJgSgjdrYR
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 26, 2021
Death threats. The guy died 15 centuries ago, he doesn’t care what people say about him.
Many people are offended by many different things but if we used the criterion of offence alone to determine what teaching resources should be used, we would be in a constant quandary. The criteria for deciding on resources should be educational. #BatleyGrammar
— Andrew Copson (@andrewcopson) March 26, 2021
This is all very heartening.
Well played #BatleyGrammar pupils. You’re a credit to your school.https://t.co/XyXU9xNK8c pic.twitter.com/z3N33saDRL
— Stephen Evans (@Stephenmevans1) March 26, 2021
I wish those outside #BatleyGrammar school were as outraged over grooming gangs as they are cartoons. pic.twitter.com/zwFiOBlOg1
— Peter (@Suffragentleman) March 26, 2021
Here's an old picture of Jesus & Mohammed riding into town (Jesus on the donkey) #BatleyGrammar pic.twitter.com/Oq57uY88sM
— AuthorJ&M (@JandMo) March 26, 2021
So they want their kids to get a good, modern, free Western education but want that education tempered by 15-centuries-old Eastern religious beliefs. Not sure that will work.
“The guy died 15 centuries ago, he doesn’t care what people say about him.”
A scary sub-text; it took 2,000 years before people could seriously start to sort the contexts of “Christianity” and begin to undo even a very, very few of the harms perpetuated in its name. Do we have another 500 years of this Abrahamic prophet nonsense to fight through before some level of sanity can prevail? Is there some simple way we can cut to the chase? Sadly in light of the Bibi’s ongoing freedom – we may well be on a long, long path . . .
Okay, so this makes sense of the making fun of from the last thread. It was the cartoons.
Still, people have the right to make fun. They have the right to question. They have the right to disagree with you. But now we are living in a world where too many people say “Nuh uh” to that. With weapons.
Good to hear the students standing up for him – because the head folded faster than a spring loaded deckchair.
And, as Malik pointed out: the injunction against Mo images is NOT some universal ‘value’ in Islam. The outrage and mob violence is a concoction of Wahhabi crackpots. The same ones who erase even Islam’s historical sites in their deranged war against time and history.